His name was already circulating before the first round… Éric Zemmour, the president of the new Reconquest party, will he be a candidate for the legislative elections in the capital?
In any case, the polemicist can be satisfied with the score he achieved in Paris where he comes in third position behind Emmanuel Macron (35.5%) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (29.9%).
Even if with his 8.2% he comes very far behind these two candidates, Éric Zemmour is undoubtedly rubbing his hands when he sees that he damns the pawn to Valérie Pécresse (6.6%) and to the mayor of Paris herself. even since Anne Hidalgo collected only 2.2% of the votes cast.
With 85,788 voters, Éric Zemmour convinced 65,960 voters more than the mayor of Paris in his own stronghold.
It is in the right-wing districts that the Reconquest party achieved its best scores in Paris.
In the 16th arrondissement he won 17.5% of the vote.
Then come the 8th (15.3%), 7th (13.5%) 17th (10.7%) and 6th (10.5%).
Everywhere else it is below 10%.
In the arrondissements on the left, it is in the 4th arrondissement that it achieves its best score (8.4%) ahead of the 12th (7.1%).
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While until now, the extreme right of the National Rally very rarely exceeded the 5% mark in the capital, for this Presidential election, the cumulative scores of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour now represent 13.6% of the vote.
In 2012 and 2017, Marine Le Pen won only 6.2% and 4.99% of the vote.
Should we see the beginning of the establishment of the far right in Paris?
"In Éric Zemmour's electorate there are undoubtedly right-wing voters who told Valérie Pécresse that she was not on the right enough in their eyes", deciphers Jean-Yves Camus, French political scientist specializing in 'Far right.
"Eric Zemmour achieves his best results in the west of Paris, the districts historically the most right of the capital" underlines the analyst.
Moreover, this is not the first time that the far right has seduced voters in these Parisian districts.
In 1986, in the legislative elections, Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, mayor of the 7th arrondissement, had himself elected as a proportional deputy on the list led in Paris by Jean-Marie Le Pen, President of the National Front.
Will Éric Zemmour's Parisian voters turn to Marine Le Pen in the second round?
Will the candidate's voting instructions be followed?
In the second round of the 2017 Presidential election Marine Le Pen won 10.32% of the votes cast against 89.68% for Emmanuel Macron.
